I have an applescript which starts an python script. The python script calculates an integer. Is it possible to return the result as an integer or string to the applescript?
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1Can you give examples of the code?Eli Sadoff– Eli Sadoff2016-10-31 15:47:47 +00:00Commented Oct 31, 2016 at 15:47
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You should be able to return a value from a python script run from an applescript like this:
set scriptResult to do shell script ("python path/to/script.py")
where scriptResult is then set to any output provided to stdout (e.g., from a print statement) in the python script. So in your python script you could simply:
print yourInteger
and scriptResult would then be set to [integer]. Note that scriptResult will be set to all stdout, so everything you print will be included here. You also may need to do some casting in your applescript to make scriptResult a number:
set scriptResult to (do shell script ("python path/to/script.py")) as integer
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foo
Not relevant to OP's particular use case, but worth noting here that
do shell script uses UTF8 encoding, so additional encode()/decode() futzing may be required in the Python code when dealing with anything other than ASCII strs.
Moe
It's not working for me! :/ error "python: can't open file '[/Users/Usr/Desktop/xMail.py]': [Errno 2] No such file or directory" number 2
matthewjselby
Lose the brackets, those were only there to indicate where something should be inserted into the script.
In the same genre using do shell script with directly script python
set xy to do shell script "echo 'import sys, time; from Quartz.CoreGraphics import *
def mouseEvent(type, posx, posy): theEvent = CGEventCreateMouseEvent(None, type, (posx,posy), kCGMouseButtonLeft); CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, theEvent);
def mouseclickdn(posx,posy): mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseDown, posx,posy);
def mouseclickup(posx,posy): mouseEvent(kCGEventLeftMouseUp, posx,posy);
ourEvent = CGEventCreate(None); currentpos = CGEventGetLocation(ourEvent); print currentpos[0]; print currentpos[1]; mouseclickdn(currentpos.x, currentpos.y);
mouseclickup(currentpos.x, currentpos.y);' | python "
set xy to do shell script "echo " & xy
